The Sage Garden

[Lief 🗽]

All of Snowstalker's posts in this thread: https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=186527.75

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Did Snowstalker seriously end two consecutive posts in the SOTU thread with the exact same Thomas Sankara quote or am I dreaming?

[Oakvale]

Did Snowstalker seriously end two consecutive posts in the SOTU thread with the exact same Thomas Sankara quote or am I dreaming?

I think he did. The problem with sage is that it stems from a limited intellectual palette so some recycling is obviously necessary. Nevertheless I hope this will finally lead to Snowstalker's ban since admitted trolling is presumably a ToS violation.

And remember,

"He who feeds you, controls you" - Thomas Sankara

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Did Snowstalker seriously end two consecutive posts in the SOTU thread with the exact same Thomas Sankara quote or am I dreaming?

I think he did. The problem with sage is that it stems from a limited intellectual palette so some recycling is obviously necessary. Nevertheless I hope this will finally lead to Snowstalker's ban since admitted trolling is presumably a ToS violation.

And remember,

"He who feeds you, controls you" - Thomas Sankara

That was an accident, since most of both my deleted and non-deleted posts had been edited by yours truly multiple times. Thankfully one of the two posts was deleted.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Russia's trend towards reactionary nationalism is the direct result of shock therapy imposed by the Western puppet Yeltsin and Clinton breaking his promise to not expand NATO so as to surround and directly menace Russia.

[H. Ross Peron]

She wants to bomb them outright, so why would she want new sanctions?

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Russia's trend towards reactionary nationalism is the direct result of shock therapy imposed by the Western puppet Yeltsin and Clinton breaking his promise to not expand NATO so as to surround and directly menace Russia.

Amazingly, Snowstalker is right on this one. The hardships of the 1990s transformation, which wasn't wholly successfull (to put it mildly) and the geopolitical changes did play a major role in Russian sentiments.

She wants to bomb them outright, so why would she want new sanctions?

Now, that's a proper entry!

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Russia's trend towards reactionary nationalism is the direct result of shock therapy imposed by the Western puppet Yeltsin and Clinton breaking his promise to not expand NATO so as to surround and directly menace Russia.

Amazingly, Snowstalker is right on this one. The hardships of the 1990s transformation, which wasn't wholly successfull (to put it mildly) and the geopolitical changes did play a major role in Russian sentiments.

So Bill Clinton is the main person to blame for Russia's anti-gay wave?

[free my dawg]

Russia's trend towards reactionary nationalism is the direct result of shock therapy imposed by the Western puppet Yeltsin and Clinton breaking his promise to not expand NATO so as to surround and directly menace Russia.

Sage isn't determined by whether something's true, but the size of the truths.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Russia's trend towards reactionary nationalism is the direct result of shock therapy imposed by the Western puppet Yeltsin and Clinton breaking his promise to not expand NATO so as to surround and directly menace Russia.

Amazingly, Snowstalker is right on this one. The hardships of the 1990s transformation, which wasn't wholly successfull (to put it mildly) and the geopolitical changes did play a major role in Russian sentiments.

So Bill Clinton is the main person to blame for Russia's anti-gay wave?

One of many; plenty of factors and plenty of blame. The expansion of NATO, the failure of IMF-imposed shock therapy, the revival in influence from the Russian Orthodox church after 70 years of state atheism, and Putin's legitimacy coming from posing himself as a tough and competent alternative to the incompetent Yeltsin are all factors in Russia's political direction.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

[Citation needed]

If you insist. This comes from an agency under the Ministry of Justice, mind you.

Yeah, this is sadly a fact. Some of it stems from the nature of Islam in regards to treatment of women, but I'd suspect that much like higher crime rates among minorities and poor whites, much of it stems from poverty, unemployment, underemployment, etc.

[free my dawg]

The Master Class wants people competing for the jobs that others already have so that it can make the workplace far more brutal and far less remunerative.

Unemployment insurance came into existence during the Great Depression in part to protect existing workers from losing jobs to the unemployed.

[Lief 🗽]

The Master Class wants people competing for the jobs that others already have so that it can make the workplace far more brutal and far less remunerative.

Unemployment insurance came into existence during the Great Depression in part to protect existing workers from losing jobs to the unemployed.

He's right though? High unemployment results in reducing bargaining power for workers, which allows employers to pay less and have fewer worker protections, etc.

Of course his tone is too sage-y, that's true.

[free my dawg]

The Master Class wants people competing for the jobs that others already have so that it can make the workplace far more brutal and far less remunerative.

Unemployment insurance came into existence during the Great Depression in part to protect existing workers from losing jobs to the unemployed.

He's right though? High unemployment results in reducing bargaining power for workers, which allows employers to pay less and have fewer worker protections, etc.

Of course his tone is too sage-y, that's true.

Not repeating myself.

[Oakvale]

As has been pointed out, what makes something sage is not the truth value of the post but the size of said Truths.

[King]

http://www.metamodernism.org/

[All Along The Watchtower]

Both her and her predecessor are parasites and deserve no more money than their lowest-paid laborer.

[Oakvale]

Several dead, including a couple killed by pro-government militia (FTR I don't support any of the violence on either side) and one member of said militia killed by the fascists (proof that these are anything but "peaceful protests" and probably part of another coup plan).

I'm sure Obama has something to do with it just like Bush did 12 years ago; he wants that oil, and the Western media will surely portray these as peaceful, idealistic democratic protesters, which is a blatant lie.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2014/02/venezuela-anti-government-rally-turns-deadly-2014212195829466475.html

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Legitimate question: why are all of our Latin American posters awful right-wingers?

Why would the fascists need to start an uprising in Venezuela? They have been in power for the last 15 years. Against whom would they be rebelling?

[Napoleon]

Legitimate question: why are all of our Latin American posters awful right-wingers?

Why would the fascists need to start an uprising in Venezuela? They have been in power for the last 15 years. Against whom would they be rebelling?

I think ag and deadflagblues have been burdened with the knowledge of basic economics.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Legitimate question: why are all of our Latin American posters awful right-wingers?

Why would the fascists need to start an uprising in Venezuela? They have been in power for the last 15 years. Against whom would they be rebelling?

I think ag and deadflagblues have been burdened with the knowledge of basic economics.

Be that as it may, I'm really, really wondering how exactly ag is defining 'right-wing' in his subsequent post in that thread. Criticizing Chavez's and especially Maduro's policy, rhetoric, and actions in office is completely reasonable but the specific descriptors that he's using seem, well, odd in this context.

[Antonio the Sixth]

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=187710.0

The Ultimate Sage Thread?

[free my dawg]

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?action=profile;u=12049;sa=showPosts

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Legitimate question: why are all of our Latin American posters awful right-wingers?

Why would the fascists need to start an uprising in Venezuela? They have been in power for the last 15 years. Against whom would they be rebelling?

FTR, I am not Hispanic in any way, shape, or form, but I think you know that by now .

[Antonio the Sixth]

The Sage is strong in this one:

The global elite that controls and profits off both Obama and Putin wants a war and they will get one. Perhaps not over Ukraine or Syria, but they will get one in the future.